RSS, Christians must join hands to ‘save tribals from love, land jihad’: BJP leader Nishikant Dubey
The MP from Godda claimed that the population of Bangladeshi Muslims in Jharkhand was on the rise, but did not provide any evidence to back his assertion.
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Bharatiya Janata Party leader MP Nishikant Dubey has said that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and Christian missionaries should work in tandem to “save tribals from love and land jihad from Bangladeshi infiltrators” in Jharkhand, reported The Indian Express on Tuesday.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is the ideological parent of the ruling BJP.
“Love jihad” is a Hindutva conspiracy theory that Muslim men lure Hindu women into romantic relationships in order to convert them to Islam. “Land jihad” is also an anti-Muslim conspiracy theory peddled by Hindutva groups.
In an interview with The Indian Express, Dubey, whom the BJP has retained as its candidate from Jharkhand’s Godda Lok Sabha constituency, said: “Like the prime minister, I am also of the view that the demography of the area has changed.”
Polling for the Godda seat will take place in the seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday.
“The Adivasi population has decreased by 11% across the state – the most in Santhal Parganas – while the Bangladeshi Muslim population has seen a rise as the family of Alamgir Alam [Jharkhand rural development minister who was recently arrested by the Enforcement Directorate] is giving them citizenship,” said Dubey.
The Modi government has repeatedly said in Parliament that it has no data on the number of undocumented immigrants...
